Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

Sens. Brown, Dolph, Vest, Eustis and 9TH
ers, but no action was taken on the bill.
Beck gave notice that he would to-mor
row call up the railroad attorney bill.
The senate then adjourned.
House-In the house the enrolled copy
of the inter state commerce bill was sign
ed by the speaker and after it has been
signed by the president of the senate it
will be sent to the president. Mr.. Tur-
ner, of Georgia, called up the Rhode Is
land contested election case of Page VS..
Pierce. The majority resolution declares
the seat vacant, while the minority reso-
luton confirms the right of Pierce to the
senate. The majority resolution was
agreed to, yeas, $50: nays, SO. Mr.. Hatch.
of Missouri, reported the agricultural ap-
preparation bill, and it was referred to
the committee of the whole. The house
then adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, Ian. 26.
Senate.-The credentials of GRAY, of
Delaware, Dawes, of Massachusetts, and
Cockrell. of Missouri, were presented and
placed on file. The senate then resumed
consideration of the bill to establish agri-
cultural experimental stations in con-
nection with agricultural colleges estab-
lished under the act of July ., 1882.
After long discussion and the Offering
OF and voting on large number uf
amendments, Hawley offered substitutes
for the bill, and on his motion the bill and
substitute were ordered printed, and the
matter went over till tomorrow.
The railroad attorney bill was then tax
en- up and Barry obtained the floor to dis
cuss 1t, but the senate Immediately went
,{<,r
were reopened adjourned.
House = The speaker laid before
the house letter from the secre-
tary of the treasury submitting estimates
of the appropriation to meet the expendi-
lures required by the Mexican pension
bill. Referred. It is estimated
that $4,663,OO0 will be required
for the fiscal years payment o.
pensions. and he asks for an appropriation
of two hundred and fifty-seven thousand
dollars for increased clerical force.
After struggle for precedence be-
tween the pleuro-pneumonia bill and the
and river harbor appropriation bill, the
latter proved successful, and the house
went into committee of the whole, Nc
Milin, of Tennessee, in the chair, on that
measure, The original bill was then ordered
and read the third time;
yeas 243, nays 81; and the previous ques-
ton was ordered on the final passage of
the bill. Hepburn demanded the reading
of the engrossed copy, and as the bill
had not been engrossed the house ad-
journed. The bill will come up for final
action tomorrow.
THURSDAY, Jan. 81.
Senate-The senate resumed considera-
ton of the agricultural experimental sta
tons bill. 1t directs the establishment,
in connection with agricultural colleges,
of department to be known and design
ated as an agricultural experimental sta
ton. Where there are two such colleges
in one state, the amount appropriated to
each state and territory for this purpose,
$4,000, is to be equally divided between
them unless the state legislature shall
otherwise direct. At 3:15 p. m. the SEN
ate passed the dependent soldiers ped
sion bill without amendment aud without
- IT applies to the yaterana of
any war-Seminole, Black Hawk, Mexi-
can and war of the rebellion-and give
uniform allowance of $12 month from
the time of the passage of the bill. The
cost of the bill, should it be-
come law, is 100000 a year at the
most. It may easily be $1O0,0O0,OOO. Ad
journed.
House = The speaker announced
the unfinished business to be
the river and harbor appropriation bill.
The bill passed, yeas 154, nays 81, in
the exact form in which it was reported
from the committee on rivers and har-
bors. Hammond, from the committee on ju-
dietary, reported adversely the joint res
olution providing for the election of
United States senators by the people of
the United States. At the request of
Weaver, the joint resolution was placed
upon the house calendar. Adjourned.
FRIDAY, Jan. %.
Senate-The senate this afternoon took
up the bill to prohibit members of con-
gress from acting as attorneys or employ
es for railroad companies holding char
tiers Or having received grants of lands
or pecuniary aid from the United States,
and Sen. Berry addressed the senate in
advocacy of the bill. He did not believe
that a senator or member drawing $40,
600 or $4,000 a year from the Union Pa
cifc railroad company could act and vote
on the Pacific funding bill,
or on the Northern Pacific land forfeiture
bill. Amendments to the bill were offer
ed by Platt and Hoar. The latter said
the bill was aimed at a state of things
not existing and not likely to exist. Sen.
Hoar withdrew his motion to reconsider
the vote by which the dependent parents
pension bill passed yesterday. He ex-
planned that he had an objection to the
clause aboat dependent parents, but he
did not wish to imperil the final passage
Of the bill. The senate then adjourned
till tomorrow.
House-In the house Mr.. Forney pre-
scented the conference report on the bill
making an annual appropriation of four
hundred thousand dollars for the equip
ment Of the militia forces of the United
States, and it was agreed to. The house
then went into a committee of the whole
on the ro-pneumonia bill. On motion
of MIR. Hatch, an amendment was adopt
ed increasing from $4,000 to $4,000, the
salary of the chief the bureau of animal
industry. Mr.. Swineburne offered an
providing that the force en-
ployed shall include scientific attainments
and not less than six years of actual ex
perience in sanitary and pathological
work, and especially in the Investigation